Poem Structure
What is a stanza?
An eight line stanza.
What is an octet?
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is AABB?
A poem's lines follow each other without formal grouping.
What is continuous form?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
What is diction?
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line.
What is rhyme?
Six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem.
Lifting her arms to soap her hair
Her pretty breasts respond – and there
The movement of that buoyant pair
Is like a spell to make me swear…
What is AAAA?
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
Refers to words or phrases that are meaningful, but not literally true.
What is figurative language?
The internal ordering of the materials--the arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, and sentences in a poem
What is the poem's structure?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a haiku?
The one who brought me down to earth,
And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth,
And said, I love you in every way.
What is ABAB?
Specific types of poetry that have set, predetermined forms. Example haiku. Other fixed forms are the sonnet and the villanelle
What is fixed form?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader
What is tone?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
What is a scheme?
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes
What is a sonnet?
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
What is ABBA?
What is blank verse?
Special tools the poet can use to create certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce meaning through sound.
What are sound devices?
A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables.
What is meter?
A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba,
What is a limerick?
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait
ABCABC
A 19 line poetic form consisting of five tercets sets followed by a quatrain.
What is a villanelle?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.